Mystery car pix

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From the prancing horse on the nose and little emblem on the flank, it is a Ferrari but not one that I know. The coachbuilt body might be by Vignale, from the lines and I guess from about 1950-55. I assume that it is British delivery from the Right Hand Drive, but plates are wrong for any RHD country that I can think of.

You're very observant Graham, considering how small that Ferrari emblem is.

Yes, it is a Vignale-bodied 1952 Ferrari 212 Europa cabriolet.It wasn't until the mid-late 50s that Pininfarina became the coachbuilder of choice for Ferrari. There are many early Ferraris by Vignale and Touring.

In front of the two Opels in the foreground is a Renault Dauphine. There are a number of Simca Arondes The earliest one is passing the Riley whilst next to it the lemon / blue one is a later version with the second grille. and the grey car which is about to pass by is the third type. That car is being overtaken by what I think is a Simca Ariane or Vedette. The car beyond the passing grey Aronde looks like another Opel Rekord.Also there is a Citroen 2CV parked behind the cream coloured Renault 4CV /750.On our side of the central reservation there is another Simca Aronde in front of the Ford 100E, a Studebaker Hawk (57?) and ahead of that a Jaguar (later retrospectively known as a MkI).

Ooh, where's the emotorcon with hearts? Love it. W116s look great in brown, couple that with a rare Crayford conversion, and it's hard to beat. I can't tell the model, but does not look like a SEL (LWB) car.

One thing that interests me is that it's got the US style 4 round headlights. Does that mean that it is a converted US version or were those headlights used elsewhere? The license plate doesn't look like US issue, but I can't even tell from the picture if it actually is a license plate.

It could be either. I have seen US lights on MBs in Europe (W126 especially) - some people there actually like the US style lights, and it might hearken back to the days in Europe when a V8 108 had quad lights, while a 6 had the flush composite lights. It could also be a grey market import, I am sure a few were sold here.

1956 Oldsmobile Starfire1956 Chev, 4-door hardtop Sport Sedan. I'm trying to recall the colors. There was a dark gray used with a coral that might photograph like this in black and white. The black/yellow would appear much lighter in the yellow.

That's an interesting story. Apparently Lancia provided right hand drive even in areas where driving on the right was the norm, apparently to assist drivers in heavily mountainous terrain, if they preferred, to see the edge of the road on the right side, going uphill. Coming down the mountain they still had the entire left lane buffering them from the edge of doom.

I know, for instance, going east out of Aspen over Independence Pass during a ferocious rain storm--I wouldn't have minded right hand drive.

You and Fintail both mentioned Czech connections, and this is indeed from Czechoslovakia. It's a Krejbich (I've also found a reference to it as a Kreibick) built in 1949-50 and powered by Jawa 2-stroke engines - they fitted either a 200cc or 350cc motor. According to the only references I can find they built about 70 of them, and there are a couple still left - there are pictures of at least two survivors on Flickr.This is the first picture I have ever posted on this site that I didn't take myself, so I'm not exactly a quick learner!

Aha, yes a Fiat 500. I saw one of the new convertibles recently and it had a similar appearance in back. There's one more car in that photo that we haven't identified. It's the black sedan that you can see just the rear door an C-post of past the little Fiat.

It sure looks like this '55 MG Magnette>

But then I figured you'd have said so if it was so what is it? :confuse:

Nice Magnette although he's missing a bit of chrome - this is a later car than mine and I think is a ZB although the trim off the front wing isn't there to confirm it. He's also missing a bit I haven't got eiither - there should be a chrome strip round the rear window but his has gone. I have been looking for one of those for years, too.I think the black saloon in a Fiat 1400 (First I thought Alfa 1900 but the rear door doesn't look right).